Preschool children are more sophisticated than toddlers.... Your goal as a parent is to nurture the child's desire to be a self-st...arter and help him begin to adopt some of your attitudes and values, but without humiliating the child or suppressing his newfound assertivenessLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass.... Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hamlet. To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till a... find it stopping a bung-hole? Horatio. 'Twere to consider too curiously to consider so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What though he did not belong to your clique! Though you may not approve of his method or his principles, recognize his magnanimit...y. Would you not like to claim kindredship with him in that, though in no other thing he is like, or likely, to you? Do you think that you would lose your reputation so? What you lost at the spile, you would gain at the bung.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was awful thoughts, and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said, and never thought no more about reforming. I ...shoved the whole thing out of my head, and said I would take up wickedness again, which was in my line, being brung up to it, and the other warn't. And for a starter, I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think up anything worse, I would do that, too; because as long as I was in, and in for good, I might as well go the whole hog.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman stat...e of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »